This study investigates the effect of corporate hedging on stock price crash risk. We test two competing hypotheses …. Under the transparency hypothesis, hedging reduces a firm's information asymmetry and lowers crash risk. Under the opacity … hypothesis, hedging decreases financial reporting quality and increases crash risk. Using a comprehensive sample of firms from …

This research focuses on the ultimate impact of hedging effectiveness on firm performance. Successful risk management … quarterly earnings per share). We empirically estimate the hedging profile of 5,586 non-financial firms (spanning 25 industries … and other firm characteristics – identifies the impact of the firm's hedging profile on firm performance. We find a strong …

-linked securities. It considers the trade-offs an insurer or reinsurer faces in selecting a hedging strategy. We compare index and … indemnity-based hedging as alternative design choices and ask which is capable of creating the greater value for shareholders … problem yields a conflict of interest between shareholders and other stakeholders. Given the fact that hedging may improve the …

We propose a maximum-expected utility hedging model with futures where cash and futures returns follow a bivariate skew … normality, skewness has a material impact when the agent is significantly risk averse. Pure hedging demand is either greater or … pure hedging and minimum-variance demand increases with basis risk, i.e. the imperfect correlation between cash and futures …

market factors, its volatility and the quality of hedging. The wrong way risk is most significant for exposures highly … CVA hedging strategy. While the benefits from hedging are always magnified in the situation of the wrong way risk, the …

effect and (de)leverage effect of Bitcoin inverse futures, and obtain optimal hedging strategies in closed forms for both … empirical studies. Our findings show that the optimal hedging strategies of Bitcoin inverse futures achieve superior hedging …